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As the museum evolved, however, divisions emerged between the fine art museum and the anthropology or archaeology museum. In the 19th century, the Golden Age of Museums, cultural objects were seen as belonging to two different categories: art objects, considered primarily for their aesthetic value and arranged chronologically to trace...
Feeling guilty, I asked Cassandra if she would have never married me if, on our first date, she had collected my spit in a more scientific manner than she did. But Cassandra said she likes that I have different genes, arguing that when, for instance, Jews procreate with other Jews...
Citizen science - "the involvement of nonprofessionals in the scientific process," according to University of Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott, one of Galaxy Zoo's founders - is not a new concept. Distributed-computing projects like SETI@home, which hunts for radio signals that might indicate intelligent life in the universe, and ClimatePrediction.net...
Galaxy Zoo discoveries have been important enough that astronomers have investigated some of them separately, using Earth-bound telescopes as well as the Hubble Space Telescope. The project's findings have led to 10 scientific articles, which appeared in peer-reviewed journals, and six more are on the way. And...
So who are these overachieving zooites? According to a 2008 survey of 11,000 Galaxy Zoo users, 80% are men and two-thirds live in the U.S. or U.K. They are primarily people who want to "contribute to original scientific research," says Jordan Raddick, education director of the Institute for...